Tuesday, November 10, 2015

You know how whenever you see that you have a notification on Facebook you get really excited, only to be disappointed by a person you didn't even remember you were friends with inviting you to like a random, irrelevant page, or even worse... inviting you to play Candy Crush Saga?

Well, I am now that annoying person. It started out as a modest endeavor to invite a couple of friends to my Facebook page for Yammie's Noshery. But then I thought to myself...

"Hey, he might like it to. Oh, she definitely will. I don't think he cooks, but I'll invite him anyway. What! I'm still friends with this person? Well, no matter. She's invited."

Until finally I stopped even looking at the names until every single one was invited.

So, um... sorry about that guys. But, hey! Welcome!

So today is my productive day since Samuel is at school all day until 8:30. Yeah, that's right, PM! It's like being separated by the Atlantic Ocean all over again! O Samuel, Samuel! Wherefore art thou Romeo... I mean Samuel!

Anyway, what this means that I have nobody to pester and distract to make me feel better about being unproductive too.

I
always start the day out very meaningfully, lying in bed for another
hour after he leaves, pondering the complexities of life (or more
commonly falling back asleep). Then I get all dressed and ready for the
day in my finest sweatpants. After that, I stare at the kitchen sink for a
while, strategizing about how to do yesterday's dishes with the most
efficiency. After I've thought about that for a while, I consider responding to all my important emails, but then
decided it would be more worthwhile to get inspired for my next post by
browsing Pinterest. Next thing you know, it's lunchtime. And
look how much I already got done!

Okay. Really, I'm not always this bad. Yesterday I really
was productive. I even made you some pasta. It's basically a cross
between these stuffed chicken breasts and this spinach artichoke mac and cheese.
Basically I just threw everything I needed to get rid of in here,
including about a billion different cheeses I had sitting in the fridge.

The sauce for this pasta is really great. You could even use it as a fondue or something I'm sure.

Or you could just take a bath in it. Whichever.

This recipe is actually gluten free if you use gluten free noodles like I did. It's also vegetarian if you're into that. I ended up throwing some chopped prosciutto on top before I fed it to Samuel though since he's such a carnivore. I think it really topped it off, so try it if you want!

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Sun-dried Tomato, Spinach, and Basil Spaghetti

8 oz. spaghetti noodles, which is almost 3/4 of a 12 oz. box or a little less than 250 g (Really don't worry about being exact. Also, I used GF noodles.)